"Let me go!"
Kate had been calmly walking her now familiar path across the beach. The men that she had met a couple days before had walked up to her and followed her to an empty part of the beach. The two men were now blocking her path back to the hotel.
"We are not holding you."
The taller of the two men answered.
"We were told to bring you home."
Kate glares at them and rolls her eyes.
"I'm not going back."
With that she pushes her way through the men and jogs back to her room. She slams her door shut and leans against it, she slowly falls down and ends up sitting down on the floor. Her hands are shaking and her breath is short as if she ran her heart out. Her head lands in her lap as she disappears into her thoughts.
"Where have you been?"
She had just walked back into her house then minutes ago and seen her mother at the stove. The question sounded like she was concerned but only if she had just walked in the door and heard it.
"Out mother."
Her mother nodded as if she had been out for all but an hour and continued to cook.
"Mommy! When are we eating?"
The sister had grown, just as Caitlin had but the way she talked sill sounded childish.
"When do you want to eat honey?"
Her mother was now crouching in front of her sister with a smile on her face.
"Now mommy."
She nods and hands a plate to the now ten-year-old girl. Kate rolls her eyes at this picture, grabs the remains of a cold pizza out of the fridge and walks up to her room, leaving the 'family' with their supper.
The call of the hotel phone rings through her room and it flows from the bedroom and into the little alcove in front of the door. Kate jerks her head up, looking around the little room as her breathing slows to normal. She stands up and walks over to the still ringing phone and picks it up.
"Hello?"
Kate answers, her voice sound like she just woke up, which would be true if she had been in her bed.
"Did I wake you?"
It was Gibbs, she had only called one-person from her line and it had been to Abby, she always guessed Gibbs would find out.
"Ah... no Gibbs."
She had stopped to think, her mind was still back in her past.
"Just so you hear it from me, I made her tell me, she really didn't want to, but she did."
This statement took Kate a while to comprehend.
"Oh."
Kate sits down on her bed and slowly lays down on it.
"Is that all you wanted?"
"No... wanted to check up on you. How are you doing?"
"I'm fine, I've got to go though."
Kate could hear Gibbs nod on the other end.
"Bye."
She doesn't say anything; instead she grunts and then moves her hand slowly over the phone base and drops the receiver back on it. Her shoes are still firmly tied to her feet, she brings her knees up to her chin and rolls on to her side and closes her eyes again.
"Thanks Abbs."
Gibbs is sitting on the chair in her lab and pushing the 'end' button on his cell phone.
"Yeah."
She looks at her screen and than looks back at him, her eyes growing concerned as she does.
"What is it?"
Gibbs is sitting up right now, his voice hard and fast.
"Found them."
Gibbs walks over to her and looks over her shoulder at the two men that were on the screen.
"They're PI's... retired cops."
Gibbs starts walking off, his pace fast, he was determined and everyone could tell.
"The last money they got was from a Mrs. Todd."
Gibbs raises his hand in a little wave and walks out the door.
"DiNozzo!"
Tony jerked around, he'd just gotten in and had been doing his work... what did Gibbs want now?
"Yes boss?"
His usual teasing self, Gibbs smiled at him.
"Nothing."
Gibbs walked over and grabbed his bag, put his gun in his holster and started to walk off.
"Ah... boss?"
Gibbs turns around to see Tony's confused face.
"Do your work."
With that he pushed the ground floor button and Tony stood still starring at the elevator. He finally sat down and looks over at McGee.
"What?!"
Tony sound a little mad and McGee quickly goes into his defensive mode.
"Ah... um... nothing."
Tony nods and goes back to his work, wondering why Gibbs left as if on a case with no back up.
TBC
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